Asp.Net MVC Route does not Display "Index" value [duplicate] - c#

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When i redirect from a Controller using
RedirectToAction("Index", "Controller");
Or Generate a link with UrlHelper
#Url.Action("Index","Controller");
In both ways the "/Index" Part is striped down from my URL.
Although for SEO Purposes i want my url to be displayed always at the same manner.
www.domain.com/en/Controller/Index
but now i get
www.domain.com/en/Controller
How can i force these two methods above always display the "/Index" Part.
P.S I know this happens because "Index" is indicated as a Default action on my route, but either way i want it to be displayed.

Add new role in RouteConfig with before default route with Index action
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultIndex",
url: "{controller}/Index/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

Check your configuration inside global.asax file. It can be like this.
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Controller", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
}
Maybe based on your mask you always going to default route. So just remove default mapping.

You can try do this:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
ViewBag.Message = "Modify this template to jump-start your ASP.NET MVC application.";
return RedirectToAction("About","Home");
}
public ActionResult About()
{
ViewBag.Message = "Your app description page.";
return View();
}
public ActionResult Contact()
{
ViewBag.Message = "Your contact page.";
return View();
}
}

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I need to redirect on different action based on role. I have made following changes to RouteConfig.cs.
RouteConfig.cs
routes.MapRoute(
name: "borrower",
url: "borrower",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Borrower" });
routes.MapRoute(
name: "broker",
url: "broker",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Broker" });
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
Here is my controller
HomeController.cs
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
if (UserPrincipal.Current.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
if (UserPrincipal.Current.IsInRole("Broker"))
{
return RedirectToRoute("broker");
}
else if (UserPrincipal.Current.IsInRole("Borrower"))
{
return RedirectToRoute("borrower");
}
}
return View();
}
public ActionResult Broker()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult Borrower()
{
return View();
}
}
Code flow is working properly till return RedirectToRoute("")but after this code flow never goes to related/appropriate action and empty view is returned.
NOTE: Both Broker and Borrower views are not empty they have static text.
In network tab you can see proper redirect is being performed and URL in browser is being set to route URL.
RedirectToRoute("Broker") result in 302 response and user is redirected to abc.com/broker as it should but abc.com/broker does not hit Broker action method in HomeController and empty view is returned. According to RouteConfig.cs it should hit Broker action method.
Please point out what I'm doing wrong here.
It turned out that I had a directory named "Borker" and "Borrower" at root of the web project. Due to this MVC routing module was being ignored and requests (abc.com/broker and abc.com/borrower) was moved to these directory. So I renamed these directories and everything worked as expected :)

MVC Default route with nullable id not working as expected

A simple routing scenario is not working for me.
my route registration looks like this
context.MapRoute(
"Users_default",
"Users/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id= UrlParameter.Optional });
and i am expecting it to honor the requests for
users/profile/
users/profile/1
users/profile/2
with the following controller
public class ProfileController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index(int? id)
{
var user = id == null ? (UserModel)HttpContext.Session["CurrentUser"] : userManager.GetUserById((int)id);
return View(user);
}
}
it works for users/profile but not for users/profile/1
i've tried few different things but i know the answer must be simple, its just my lack of knowledge, what am i missing here.
i dont want index to appear. i want to use the same method for both users/profile/1 and users/profile/
Then don't put action into your URL.
context.MapRoute(
"Users_default",
"Users/{controller}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id= UrlParameter.Optional });
The route you have defined will not allow index to be optional because it is followed by another parameter (in this case "id"). Only the last parameter can be optional on all but the default route.
This is because your route interprets as:
{controller: "profile", action: "1"}.
You need to point you details action url explicit, something like this:
users/profile/index/1
You can use Attribute routing
The code would look like
public class ProfileController : Controller
{
[Route("users/profile/{id}")]
public ActionResult Index(int? id)
{
var user = id == null ? (UserModel)HttpContext.Session["CurrentUser"] : userManager.GetUserById((int)id);
return View();
}
}
And you have to modify your RouteConfig
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
// This will enable attribute routing in your project
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
So now you can use users/profile for your default behaviour and users/profile/ for a specific profile.

Routing for Particular Action Adds 'Home' In Front of Action

I'm having an odd issue with routing in a basic ASP/MVC project.
I have a bunch of nav items setup:
<li>Home</li>
<li>Fire</li>
<li>Law Enforcement</li>
<li>Forensics</li>
<li>Reconstruction</li>
They all work fine, except for the third one, labeled law-enforcement.
When I mouse over this item, the URL is: http://localhost:54003/home/law-enforcement
When I mouse over any other item, the URl is: http://localhost:54003/fire
My Controller setup is:
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
[Route("~/fire")]
public ActionResult Fire()
{
return View();
}
[Route("~/law-enforcement")]
public ActionResult Law()
{
return View();
}
[Route("~/forensics")]
public ActionResult Forensics()
{
return View();
}
[Route("~/reconstruction")]
public ActionResult Reconstruction()
{
return View();
}
And my route config is:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.LowercaseUrls = true;
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional}
);
}
When I go to the route the URL specifies, ASP responds with a 404 page not found (as it should). If I go to the route that I know it should be, such as localhost/law-enforcement then the correct View is rendered.
Any ideas why ASP is routing this one particular action incorrectly?
The Razor Url.Action(...) cannot refer to the route defined by the [RouteAttribute] on the controller action; instead it needs to refer to the action's name. So changing my Razor syntax to refer to #Url.Action("law", "home") instead of #Url.Action("law-enforcement", "home") solved the issue.
You can keep your url mapping in either of 2 ways as below:
One way is to decorate your actionresult with attribute as below:
// eg: /home/show-options
[Route("law-enforcement")] //Remove ~
public ActionResult Law()
{
return View();
}
As per docs
otherwise
Just add one more configuration in Route.config file
routes.MapRoute("SpecialRoute", "{controller}/{action}-{name}/{id}",
new {controller = "Home", action = "law-enforcement", id = UrlParameter.Optional}
);
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Direct route to custom search with MVC

I need to create a custom route with MVC to build a custom search:
Default Home's Index's Action:
public virtual ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
And I would like to read a string like this:
public virtual ActionResult Index(string name)
{
// call a service with the string name
return View();
}
For an URL like:
www.company.com/name
The problem is that I have this two routes but it's not working:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Name",
url: "{name}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", name = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", area = "", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
This way, any controller other then Home is redirected to Home, and if I switch the order, it can't find the Index Home Action.
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[GET("{name}")]
public virtual ActionResult Index(string name)
{
// call a service with the string name
return View();
}
Here's a catch for the code above:
The router will send the requests without the name also to this action method. To avoid that, you can change it as below:
[GET("{name}")]
public virtual ActionResult Index2(string name)
{
// call a service with the string name
return View("Index");
}

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I want to create a URLs shortener website. URLs that I offer are like example.com/XXX where
XXX is the value of the short URL.
I want to have website on example.com and URLs are example.com/xxx. I want to get xxx from URL and redirect users to equivalent URLs in database.
How can implement this?
Create a new route in your RouteConfig for example:
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute("empty",
"{id}",
new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional}
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
And the simply go to your database with the id passed in the index
public ActionResult Index(int id)
{
//Do Stuff with db
return View();
}
asp.net mvc documentation here.
One way you be doing the needed redirection in the default controller action. By default in asp.net mvc it is home/index.
So in the index action you should be having such code
public ActionResult Index(string id)
{
var url = Db.GetNeededUrl(id);
return Redirect(url);
}
So now if the user enters such an address site.com/NewYear you'll get redirected to the equivalent url that is in you database.

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